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DBMS > Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Graphite vs. Prometheus vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

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NameGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelKey-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webprometheus.iowww.sadasengine.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioprometheus.io/­docswww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperGoogleChris DavisSADAS s.r.l.SAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20152006201520061994
Current release8.016.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonGoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyNumeric data onlyyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnononoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
HTTP API
Sockets
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesnoneyes infoby FederationnoneSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)nonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)nonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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